[Dovecot] Idea: POP3 deletion as a flag

[Reinaldo Matukuma]

Timo. Hi.
But it will be visible at what folder? Trash? Or will only be visible as a conventional message with the delete flag?
I think that this is interesting if the DELE of pop don't let the user confused when doing alternate access using a client via pop sometimes/a client via imap sometimes.


> From: tss at iki.fi
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 19:14:19 +0300
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: [Dovecot] Idea: POP3 deletion as a flag
> 
> GMail doesn't delete mails when POP3 client issues a DELE command for it. Instead they just become invisible for future POP3 sessions, but they still exist for IMAP/webmail. The same could be implemented pretty easily for Dovecot:
> 
>  - Add a new setting to enable this: pop3_deleted_flag = $POP3Deleted
>  - When DELEting a message, add this flag to the message.
>  - When listing messages, skip all messages that have this flag.
>  - Also hide this flag from IMAP clients(?)
> 
> Thoughts? Probably 20 lines of new code.
>